abitante
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abitante (plural abitanti)
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abitante m or f by sense (plural abitanti)
- inhabitant
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XX”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 82–84; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Quindi passando la vergine cruda
vide terra, nel mezzo del pantano,
sanza coltura e d’abitanti nuda.- Passing that way the virgin pitiless land in the middle of the fen descried, untilled and naked of inhabitants.
- denizen
- occupant
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- abitante in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana